When young Alton Yates joined the US Air Force, he knew it was his way forward. As an airman, Alton propelled science into the future, volunteering for dangerous space-age experiments that had him sling-shotting and spinning, surging and slamming.
After risking his life for his country in the name of scientific progress, Alton returned home to Jacksonville, Florida. There he found himself thrust backward into a racist society. But Alton wasn't about to let the momentum he had gained in the Air Force grind to a halt. Instead, he took on a new mission: to make a stand against Jim Crow laws, which kept Black people apart from and underneath white people. Alton joined the NAACP Youth Council and helped organize sit-ins that culminated in the infamous Ax Handle Saturday.
Come along for the ride and witness an American warrior who, in the face of dangers both scientific and social, never gave up on moving forward.
